European opposition to genetically modified crops is based on ‘values and politics’ not science, MPs have said as they have called for an overhaul of EU regulation to allow more plants to be grown in ...

Speaking to farmers, scientists and businesses in Pretoria, South Africa, after a visit to farmers growing GM maize, the former environment secretary said advances in plant sciences could end world hu...

Rural partner Kendal-based Oliver Bateman, based at the Kendal office of national of property consultants Carter Jonas, says experienced farmers who are not quite ready to retire, need to come forward...

Morrisons said it is making less profit, rather than more, from the sale of cut-price milk as executives from the supermarket joined Asda for a grilling at a Scottish parliamentary inquiry into the da...

China will continue to promote research into genetically modified crops while maintaining strict controls on safety of the technology, a top agriculture official said on Tuesday, underscoring Beijing'...

It used to be mostly the military that used small, unpiloted aircraft, called “drones.” The little planes were very costly. But as they have dropped in price more people have begun to use them. Rescue...

When cornstalks reach their mature height, it’s impossible for farmworkers or tractors to navigate the cornfields to apply nitrogen. To ensure the crop gets the nutrients it needs, farmers often ferti...

Last year six banks were fined a total of $4.3 billion by regulators in the U.S. and Europe for colluding to rig the price of currencies. Such market manipulation profits banks at the expense of pensi...

Restrictions imposed on the movement of poultry after an outbreak of bird flu have been lifted, the government has said. Some 6,000 ducks were culled on a farm at Nafferton, near Driffield, east Yorks...

A group of MPs is fighting for farmers, rural business owners and holiday-let operators whose properties will be demolished to make way for the controversial High Speed 2 rail link, but won't benefit ...

In late August, a government sharpshooter in a helicopter hovering above a wooded eastern Washington hillside killed the lead female wolf of the Huckleberry Pack. The aim was to end attacks by the wol...